Breakpoint, Jeremy B. C. Jackson
Breakpoint, Jeremy B. C. Jackson
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Breakpoint
Reckoning with America’s Environmental Crises

Author: Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Steve Chapple

Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright

Unabridged: 8 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/24/2018


Synopsis

Eminent ecologist Jeremy B. C. Jackson and award-winning journalist Steve Chapple traveled the length of the Mississippi River interviewing farmers, fishermen, scientists, and policymakers to better understand the mounting environmental problems ravaging the United States. Along their journey, which quickly expands to California, Florida, and New York, the pair uncovered surprising and profound connections between ecological systems and environmental crises across the country. Artfully weaving together independent research and engaging storytelling, Jackson and Chapple examine the looming threats from recent hurricanes and fires, industrial agriculture, river mismanagement, extreme weather events, drought, and rising sea levels that are pushing the country toward the breaking point of ecological and economic collapse.

Yet, despite these challenges, the authors provide optimistic and practical solutions for addressing these multidimensional issues to achieve greater environmental stability, human well-being, and future economic prosperity. With a passionate call to action, they look hopefully toward emerging and achievable solutions to preserve the country's future.

About Jeremy B. C. Jackson

Jeremy B. C. Jackson is an emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and senior scientist emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution. He lives in Brooksville, Maine, and New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by John

When I was about fifteen, I read “An Appeal to the Young,” by Peter Kropotkin, the great Russian ecologist and revolutionary. His appeal was simple but powerful: whatever career path you choose, work for the people. Inclined toward science at a young age, I was moved by the view that the real power......more

“Moving, poignant, and timely, Breakpoint is both a stark reminder of the urgent environmental challenges facing the planet and a hopeful call to action to those in power. This is boots-on-the-ground science at its finest."—Leonardo DiCaprio "Jeremy Jackson and Steve Chapple travel from Iowa to Louis......more

Goodreads review by James

This book is full of great ideas of ways that we could use to improve the ecological health of our world. This book is written by scientists who understand the crises facing the public today.......more